nss rebuild problem which I am unsure how to solve

[Karsten Hopp]

  Am 02.01.2011 23:59, schrieb Adrian Reber:
> This will probably be a bit confusing, but I will try my best to
> describe at as clear as possible.
>
> Right now I am trying to rebuild all packages which are in the group
> "build". The problem I have is with the nss-* packages.
>
> Our f13 version is 3.12.6-7 which requires nss-util = 3.12.6, and that
> is already the bug. I cannot update to nss-*-3.12.9 (current rawhide)
> because of the dependencies of the nss-* packages on each other as nss
> requires the exact version of nss-util (3.12.6). This is a packaging bug
> which was later fixed with 3.12.6. Unfortunately I cannot rebuild that
> old version because the test suites includes a certificate which has
> expired.
>
> So I cannot build 3.12.6-8 which would fix the wrong "Requires: nss-util
> = 3.12.6" to "Requires: nss-util>= 3.12.6" (and everything would be
> okay).
>
> During my rebuilds with mock I did not hit this bug because f12 contains a
> newer nss with the correct "Requires:" line. So the easiest solution
> would be if the ppc koji could also inherit from f12+updates (if that is
> possible). The f12+updates is using 3.12.8 and our latest f13 version is
> still at 3.12.6. The only other way I can imagine would be to build a nss
> 3.12.6 package with the updated certificate so that the test does not
> fail, but that sounds even more complicated.
>
> 		Adrian
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I've built the latest nss (3.12.9-0.1.beta2.fc15) in dist-f15.
Are there any other packages where I can help you ?

I'll try to get the latest gcc, rpm and glibc packages compiled
in the meantime.

    Karsten